Author: Dr Wingnut

  • PLEEEEEASE READ!!!! It was on the news!

    Who needs spammers when the general moronic public will read the following message and send it to all their moronic friends who will send it to all their moronic friends, who will send it to all their moronic friends, who will send it to all their moronic friends, who will send it to all their…

  • The Atheist

    An atheist was talking a walk through the woods.  What majestic trees!  What powerful rivers!  What beautiful animals!  he said to himself.As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.  He turned to look.  He saw a 7 foot grizzly charge towards him.He ran as fast as he…

  • What were they thinking?

    I saw the following Windsor Canadian ad on a billboard this morning on my way to work.  "Save for a special day (like Tuesday)"  Talk about putting yourself squarely into the commonplace camp of the banal.

  • Tomorrow is Monday?

    I wasn’t really having a hard time with the fact that it was time to go back to work tomorrow until I read "The Norm" in the Sunday funnies.  Take a look it is disturbing. The Norm: ©2003 Michael Jantze, distributed by King Features. Support The Norm.com with a donation.

  • How high maintenance are you?

    You get manicures.  Are you a metrosexual?I’ve never heard that word before.It’s a fastidiously groomed straight guy.Oh, yeah, I get facials.  I get a manicure and pedicure every week.  I get my hair cut, and I oil myself from head to toe.  I got that from my brother  I was so impressed with how high…

  • Tired of it

    I’m getting the feeling that the rest of the non-IT world is getting tired with the offshore-outsourcing trend.  People appear to be getting tired of dealing with corporations that only care about the money.  The rise of truly crappy customer service appears to be pissing people off, and they are blaming companies for putting the…

  • December IEEE Spectrum

    The three most interesting things in the magazine this month were:About the emerging use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) in devices that will be able to be reconfigured into new devices programatically. Not just by adding new software to the device, but actually reconfiguring the hardware on the fly.  It was a personal-digital-assistant, but now it’s…